Payton: Meaning, origin and popularity

Pronounced PAY-tuhn · 2 syllables

Payton means “enclosure; settlement, town”, from English.

Habitational surname from a minor place in Sussex, from the Old English personal name P ga + tun (“enclosure; settlement, town”).

How popular is Payton?

Payton was the #440 name in the US in 2025, given to 810 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 66% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2000.

Babies named Payton in the US by five-year period, relative to its peak (around 2000).

Half of US adults named Payton are older than 24; most are between 18 and 33. (Estimated from US births by year and life tables.)

Names that real brothers and sisters of people named Payton have, from family records on Wikidata, most common first.

Chosen by the same families or with a similar style and era.

Payton means “enclosure; settlement, town”. It comes from English.

Payton is pronounced PAY-tuhn.

Payton was the #440 name in the US in 2025, given to 810 babies. It’s used less than it was: down 66% on 2011–2015. It peaked around 2000.

Half of US adults named Payton are older than 24. Most are between 18 and 33.